Divine Self, Human Self

The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries

AvChakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize (2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies.The Gita is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of action and devotion. This book approaches their commentaries through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman (self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian theology and Western philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-29
Mått:138 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441182654

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Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought (Palgrave, 2001), Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics: An outline of Indian non-realism (Routledge, 2002), Eastern Philosophy (Wiedenfield and Nicholson, 2005), India: Life, Myth and Art (Duncan Baird, 2006), which has been translated into French, Polish and Finnish, and Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2007). He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Beyond Belief and Sunday Programme.

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Professor Ram-Prasad brings to his subject an unusual degree of experience in interreligious dialogue as well as a formidable scholarship in his own tradition, and he develops in these pages a fresh and sophisticated analysis of some of the most complex questions arising around the idea of selfhood, agency, self-knowledge and liberation in the classical commentaries on the Gita by Sankara and Ramanuja. It is a major contribution to all interested in the conversation between Christian and Hindu thinking, taking us well beyond the conventional characterisations of this encounter.

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PrefaceIntroduction1. The ground of being/non-being, and the divine self: Sa?kara on brahman and K???a2. Being and the God other than being: Ramanuja on brahman and K???a3. A comparative study of Sa?kara and Ramanuja on self and person, gnosis and loving devotionBibliographyIndex

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